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Graeme, call me on 07906 396403 when you get to HBSC next Friday. I look forward to meeting you again. The H2s will be launching at about 10:45 and will be back ashore by about 14:30.

Originally posted by H2 Yeah - I agree - I am not looking at this as something to pitch to investors as such. I am sure that could be a model but not one I would want to follow as I have had enough of that game, have cash and am just interested in whether a model of focusing sales in a clustered way enabled a small class from a niche builder to get traction.

Originally posted by Keith_Callaghan Originally posted by getafix there's a potential customer down here, he's been waiting ages to even see one, talks of some event might about to be going on at Herne Bay which is an hours drive and a day out of his life and unlikely even a chance to try it. I have nobody from the Kent area who is on my list of applicants for a demo sail of an H2. Perhaps you could advise your contact that he is very welcome to come to our national championships at Herne Bay, by arrangement, on 7-9 September to talk to H2 owners and have a sail in one.

That was me, and a chum of mine, we talked about it again tonight and will probably come over to Herne Bay on the friday so he can get a look, he only really knows about it from what I've told him, another phantom sailor fed up with being on his knees all the time, that boat would be ideal for him.

But it also shows the problem, how would he even know about it if I hadn't told him?


Edited by iGRF - 30 Aug 18 at 8:24pm

Yeah - I agree - I am not looking at this as something to pitch to investors as such. I am sure that could be a model but not one I would want to follow as I have had enough of that game, have cash and am just interested in whether a model of focusing sales in a clustered way enabled a small class from a niche builder to get traction.

Well what a manufacturer needs and often lacks, is a guarantee of firm forward orders delivered over a period so he/they can gear up the production.

Dealers on the other hand want to sell the product before they buy it and get paid in advance, once upon a time they might have invested in stock but these days with the internet and fast fashion changes forward orders from dealers are becoming a thing of the past.

As a start up, if you have a credible business plan there are quite a few sources of finance, some banks are still offering overdrafts at outrageous interest rates, there are web companies like crowdfunding, and funding circle which are not as expensive but not as cheap as money once was (Itself shocking in the light of low interest rates which have never been passed on to small entrepreneurs).